Dormant World Windows game

Dormant World

XENOpz | Released 2017

The Oneiroi (the gods of sleep) have descended onto the world. Everyone is asleep. It's up to you to try and save everyone from eternal slumber!

Inspired by NES/Famicom classics, Dormant World is a retro platformer designed to look and feel like a game that could have existed 20 years ago. Dormant World is for you if you're a bit nostalgic about the good old days and want a "game like old times, but new."

Not being overly long, the game is completable within two or three hours on a first playthrough and an hour on later replays.

Dormant World Features:

- Controller support (NES/Famicom USB controller recommended)

- Toggleable retro filter to make the game look as if it's playing on an old TV

- Hardcore mode (no saves, no continues) for added challenge

- Level design featuring the four directions of the world and a compass to help you out

- Three levels guiding you through mountains, forests, and a desert

- A few puzzles to keep you on your toes

- Bosses at the end of each level

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Dormant World: Retro Platformer on Steam

Sep 8 2017 News

Took me a couple of years, but it is done! The retro platformer I've been working on is now on Steam! There's also a demo!

Store.steampowered.com

Here are some details:

- It's inspired by Super Mario Bros., Castlevania and Contra, as well as other NES games.

- It has an experimental level design where you navigate a 3D world through 2D environments: every time you enter a new screen the camera can rotate to face a different direction (your compass shows that).

- There are 3 levels (one mountain level, one forest level and one desert level).

- Each level ends with a different boss!

- Game is based on Unity, but other than that I drew all the sprites and wrote all the music and code.

This is a screenshot from just before the first boss. Note the "screen" post-processing effect. Free-aspect ratio is supported in the game, but to be honest I prefer the original NES aspect ratio:

This screenshot sees the player arriving at a town in the mountains:

Here's a screenshot without the screen post-processing effect (which you can disable in-game). You can see a mummy, an angry cloud and some quicksand: